I Feel Stronger And Braver

Good Morning Britain’s Charlotte Hawkins talks to Selina Maycock about taking on new fitness challenges and competing against her three-year-old daughter on the monkey bars…

Being a presenter on ITV’s Good Morning Britain is a job which can lead to anything – including being roped into taking a plank challenge life on TV with no warning! So with show bosses able to throw a curve ball at any opportunity, Charlotte is keen to maintain her fitness levels, especially after competing on BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing last year. Despite being voted off the dance contest early, Charlotte, who has a daughter, Ella Rose, three, with husband Mark, tells us she found a new body confidence and is determined to keep in shape, despite not dancing for eight hours a day.

Before her debut on strictly, Charlotte’s fitness routine consisted of doing 50 sit-ups in her GMB dressing room. Eight hours of dancing a day and a foxtrot later and Charlotte tells us the show has helped her look at exercise in a different way.

‘You see the difference it has in you mood, energy levels and how you’re feeling,’ said Charlotte. ‘You feel much stronger and it’s great because you’re enjoying the way you look at the same time, thinking, ‘Great I’ve got muscles I never knew I had.’’ Charlotte admits she was ‘never the sporty one’ at school but being praised by Olympic rower Steve Redgrave when she took part in a the Sports Relief Celebrity Boat Race earlier this year gave her the confidence to get into sport and helped her discover a different ability she never knew she had.